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Am I just lucky??

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Ok I've never oc'ed in the past so with my current knowledge on oc'ing i decided to go out and buy the 2500+xp since i wanted to upgrade my old 1700+. With my current Abit nf7-s mobo and my 512mb 2700 kingston hyperx ram i thought it'll do good. So when the Barton came in i hooked it up with my thermaltake silent fan at 21dba i started upping the fsb after finding the multiplyer locked :( . With ease i got to 200 fsb with 333mhz ram speed and memory timings of 2-2-2-5. Running @ 3200+ speeds i just had to increase the vcore to 1.85 and it is super stable. Not one crash or bsod. Is it supposed to be this easy? And my temp is good, only around 42 - 45 idle.
 
well.. the first time i overclocked was on my currect cpu... i put a 1.66 ghz chip in here.. and ran it at 2.2 ghz right out of the box.. installed windows.. and have run it anywhere from 1ghz to 2.5 ghz..

also.. you shouldn't run your ram and cpu at different speeds... you might need to get better ram.. you can do it on an intel cpu, but it is really ineffecient on an AMD

also, is your old 1700+ a tbird? because i think those were actually the best overclockers... one of the 1700+'s was... you can unlock the multi by drawing between the L2 bridges with a pencil i think.. anways.. a lot of people are running those at 2.4 2.5 ghz.. and the like..
 
How ineffecient is running the cpu and memory at different speeds? Im just wondering how big of a performance increase would i get with both at 400mhz. Also i read up on the 1700+ tbred processor i had and most only got up to 2400 speeds air.
 
It's better to run the front side bus and memory frequencies in sync. This is the case under all circumstances I believe, unless you're dealing with an Intel system.

-Matt
 
well.. actually i tell him one thing... but on my mom's computer.. i am running her cpu at 100 and her memory at 200... 1.2ghz duron.. if the thing didn't run at 55c all the time i would try to run both at 150 or something
 
overclocking isnt as [h]ard to do as most ppl make it out to be. hell to break in my duron i oc'd it, installed windows and oc'd it some more. :cool: :D
 
Congrats, that's a nice first O/C. With better RAM running in sync at 400 MHz, you will get a tremendous increase in performance on that platform.
 
Great_Melinko said:
overclocking isnt as [h]ard to do as most ppl make it out to be. hell to break in my duron i oc'd it, installed windows and oc'd it some more. :cool: :D
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For sure not hard to do, but hard to do right when you factor in cooling, voltage, stability...etc. Sure you can post at an amazingly high frequency but it is really no good if you can't achieve some form of stability. What good is a 2.7ghz barton if it crashes all the time? (with the notible exception of bragging rights.....) Everybody can do it (changing multiplier, FSB, voltage..etc) very easy indeed, but hard to do right (which i believe the hardest part is the planning stage which really involves lots of estimation and a little guessing).
 
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